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Revered as fierce horsemen who once secured an empire’s frontier, Cossacks are gaining an increasing role in law enforcement in a newly conservative, nationalist Russia.
New York State will introduce a new driver’s license in July that is made of polycarbonate and has other features that officials say will make it virtually impossible to forge.
Israeli residences are being sandwiched into the fabric of Arab East Jerusalem, a construction many say undermines the idea that the area could serve as the capital of a Palestinian state.
The Cardinals rallied from a double-digit halftime deficit to beat the Orange in the last Big East final before they leave for the A.C.C.
A few years ago, the F.B.I. began reopening dozens of cold cases involving blacks killed in the South decades ago, but resolution has been elusive.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 2013, covering March 17, 2013.
Bruno Mars
Atoms For Peace
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Hillsong United
2013William B. Caldwell III, American general (born 1925)[†]
William Burns Caldwell III was a United States Army general who retired as the Fifth United States Army commanding general at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. A combat veteran of wars in Korea and Vietnam, he was awarded the Silver Star on three separate occasions for gallantry and heroism under fire. Caldwell came from a long line of soldiers; his great-great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Maze, fought in the Revolutionary War, his grandfather served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and his father was an army colonel during World War II. The line continued, and his son William B. Caldwell IV is a retired lieutenant general who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2013Lawrence Fuchs, American scholar and academic (born 1927)[†]
Lawrence Howard Fuchs was an American academic and author. He was a scholar of American studies and an expert on immigration policy who founded the American studies department at Brandeis University, where he was the Meyer and Walter Jaffe Professor of American Civilization and Politics.
2013A.B.C. Whipple, American journalist and historian (born 1918)[†]
Addison Beecher Colvin ("Cal") Whipple was an American journalist, editor, historian and author. He was born in Glens Falls, New York, on July 15, 1918, and spent most of his childhood in Suffield, Connecticut. He graduated from the Loomis School, from Yale University in 1940 and received an M.A. from Harvard University before being hired by Life Magazine. He had many positions at Time/Life and wrote a number of books about maritime history.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]